Genealogy Nugget: be organized and document your research as you go. This was a talk about the process Megan used to find the First Lady’s roots.

Sunday morning and the last day

Susan Kitchens: Tools to Capture Family Stories: The Interviewer’s Brain, Ears and Mouth – Susan is a writer, blogger, graphic designer, and award winning author. Animated and fun, Susan shared lots of tips to capture those all important family stories.

Rhonda McClure: Researching in Québec – Very knowledgeable about Québec research, this expert genealogist is the microtext floor supervisor and staff genealogist at NEHGS. She is a nationally recognized lecturer and author.

Genealogy Nugget: Notarial Records include a wide assortment of documents including property deeds. In early Québec you will also find wills and marriage contracts. The 1867 Cushing’s Notarial Form Book gives a list of different contracts a notary would create (written in English). This form book is available on Ancestry.com.

Bonus Nugget: Crown land records are the British records beginning in the 1763 of the Eastern Townships and counties on the Ottawa River which were surveyed and settled by the British and by Loyalist Americans. The petitions for land or the patents-certificates contain information such as petitioner’s family, parentage, military service, time of settling the land and more. The patents usually include the name of the grantee, a description of the land and the date of the grant.

Lists of Lands Granted by the Crown in the Province of Québec from 1763 to 21st December 1890. Québec: Charles-Francois Langlois, 1891 is a book of transcriptions of information from the land patents.

Maureen Taylor: Hairsteria: Hair in the Family – Maureen is an expert on the intersection of history, genealogy and photography and the author of a number of articles and books including one on this very topic of Hair. She showed lots of photos of weird and wonderful hairstyles over the ages and did side by side comparisons to modern day celebrity hairstyles. What goes around, comes around, it seems!

Genealogy Nugget: Beards and mustaches were accepted styles after the Civil War as it was seen as patriotic. (Sideburns et al).

Curt Witcher: Finding the World with WorldCat – Curt is the Manager for The Genealogy Center of the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, IN where he has worked for more than thirty years. He has a Masters Degree in Library Science.

WorldCat is the largest bibliographic database in the world, providing users with data on more than 1.5 billion items found in more than ten thousand libraries and record repositories world-wide.

Genealogy Nugget: Use the advanced search to find 1) family information using the surname 2) find geographic information 3 ) ethnic information 4) religious and organizational information 5) occupational information. WorldCat is a great way to find small church books, local books and archival collections. Take the time to play using various search combos.

I did lots of Jamboree Jogging and attended twelve classes AND made it to the Genealogy Gems podcast recording and two dinners…AND did the cemetery tour, not to mention all the socializing. It was an action packed three days. The genealogy nuggets barely scratch the surface of the great info we received. I’ll be putting into action some of what we learned and blogging about it here.

I have thoroughly enjoyed your summaries of the various lectures. I just went online and purchased the syllabus and I think I’ll purchase some of the lectures when they come out on Jamb. Maybe next year I can attend in person. It sounds like it was a wonderful time.

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